Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Greeneville Sun | ||||||||||
Greeneville, Tennessee | ||||||||||
From a report for the Knight Foundation | ||||||||||
by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005 | ||||||||||
Click here to read the national report or to select another newspaper | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | |||||||||
2005 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | Did not report | |||||||||
2000 | Did not report | |||||||||
1999 | Did not report | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1995 | Did not report | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 1996 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Greeneville Sun | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 4.0 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 4.0 | N/A | |||||||
How the index is calculated | ||||||||||
The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff | ||||||||||
divided by the non-white percentage of residents in the circulation area. | ||||||||||
(Parity = 100.) | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Greeneville Sun | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 33 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 10,001 to 25,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
An example of a newspaper of similar circulation, in an area of similar level of non-white residents, but one that has a relatively high Diversity Index, is Clinton Herald, Iowa, with a 10 percent non-white staff in a community that is 4.4 percent non-white. Its index is 226. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 14,474 ranks 624 out of 1,410 daily newspapers in the US. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Details on race/ethnicity | ||||||||||
in the circulation area | ||||||||||
and the home county | ||||||||||
of The Greeneville Sun | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 710 | ||||||||
Black | 1.9 | 1,370 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 191 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 112 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 39 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 381 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.0 | 2,803 | ||||||||
White | 96.0 | 67,919 | ||||||||
Total | 70,722 | |||||||||
Home county: Greene | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 1.0 | 641 | ||||||||
Black | 2.1 | 1,320 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 182 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 100 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 37 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.5 | 320 | ||||||||
Non-white | 4.1 | 2,600 | ||||||||
White | 95.9 | 60,309 | ||||||||
Total | 62,909 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Greene. | ||||||||||
About this report | ||||||||||
This third annual report for the Knight Foundation adds context to an annual survey by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. ASNE has set a goal that | ||||||||||
every newspaper, to help it know its community and gather the news, should employ at least one non-white journalist, and that newspapers should strive to | ||||||||||
employ non-whites in proportion to their share of the community. ASNE's report, at www.asne.org, shows each newspaper's non-white employment, but does | ||||||||||
not disclose how closely that employment mirrors the newspaper's circulation area. | ||||||||||
That gap is filled by the report you are reading now. This report was not done by ASNE, but was done for the Knight Foundation by Bill Dedman and | ||||||||||
Stephen K. Doig. It shows how close each newspaper is to ASNE's goal, by comparing the newsroom staffing with the circulation area population. | ||||||||||
The full report is at www.powerreporting.com/knight. | ||||||||||
Notes and definitions | ||||||||||
1. The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff divided by the non-white percentage of the circulation area's residents. Parity = 100. | ||||||||||
2. Source for staffing: Survey by American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 2005. Newspapers report non-white staff as of the end of the previous year. | ||||||||||
3. Following ASNE's definition, newsroom staff includes only supervisors, reporters, editors, copy/layout editors and photographers. | ||||||||||
4. Also following ASNE's definition, "whites," "blacks," etc., exclude Hispanics, who are counted in a separate category. | ||||||||||
5. Source for boundaries of this newspaper's circulation area: ZIP Code circulation data, Audit Bureau of Circulations, latest available. | ||||||||||
6. A paper may define its circulation area differently for marketing efforts, or news coverage, or to set advertising rates. | ||||||||||
7. If ZIP Codes or counties are used, this report applies a threshold: 10 percent household penetration is required to include an area in the circulation area. | ||||||||||
8. Source for the demographics of residents of that circulation area: US Census 2000. | ||||||||||
9. Source for total circulation: Editor & Publisher magazine, Monday-Friday average at year-end 2004. | ||||||||||
10. Staff of non-English publications, such as the Miami Herald's El Nuevo Herald, are excluded from the ASNE staffing survey for the first time this year. | ||||||||||
Demographics of ZIP Codes | ||||||||||
where sales were reported by | ||||||||||
The Greeneville Sun | ||||||||||
Note that some ZIP Codes listed here may not have been included in determining the newspaper's circulation area. In calculating the Diversity Index, a | ||||||||||
ZIP Code was included only if the household penetration was at least 10 percent. Any lower-penetration ZIP Codes are also listed here for your information. | ||||||||||
Also, if the newspaper reported more than 300 ZIP Codes, only the top 300 in weekday sales are listed here. | ||||||||||
ZIP / City / State / Approx. distance in miles from the newspaper's home office | Weekday sales | Households | Penetration % (daily sales per 100 households) | Median household income | Non-white % of population |
Hispanic % of population |
Black % of population |
Native % of population |
Asian % of population |
|
37743 / Tusculum College / TN / 0.3 mi. | 5,223 | 9,831 | 53.1 | $29,877 | 5.3 | 1.0 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |
37745 / Greeneville / TN / 1.6 mi. | 4,624 | 7,175 | 64.4 | $28,917 | 4.8 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
37641 / Chucky / TN / 10.6 mi. | 1,142 | 2,824 | 40.4 | $32,441 | 3.1 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
37818 / Mosheim / TN / 8.5 mi. | 1,058 | 1,855 | 57.0 | $33,563 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
37616 / Afton / TN / 5.9 mi. | 956 | 1,745 | 54.8 | $35,392 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.4 | |
37681 / Limestone / TN / 12.2 mi. | 406 | 2,301 | 17.6 | $31,304 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
37711 / Bulls Gap / TN / 16.6 mi. | 363 | 1,755 | 20.7 | $27,287 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
37809 / Midway / TN / 11.4 mi. | 294 | 804 | 36.6 | $28,151 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
37810 / Mohawk / TN / 14.7 mi. | 262 | 720 | 36.4 | $28,512 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
37656 / Fall Branch / TN / 20.6 mi. | 54 | 1,513 | 3.6 | $39,688 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | |
37601 / Johnson City / TN / 25.9 mi. | 25 | 14,468 | 0.2 | $30,197 | 8.3 | 1.5 | 4.7 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
37843 / Parrottsville / TN / 16.5 mi. | 24 | 1,234 | 1.9 | $27,083 | 4.1 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
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